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Wow, I just uploaded this post and it disappeared! Gone! So here it goes again in a shortened version. I posted about the Korean Children's Orchedstra coming to town a while back but I didn't get much feedback on it. I said I would post some instrument pictures to the forum but I am still in that going to mode... Here are some pictures from the performance rehearsal. The show opened with drums: Here is Stephanie practicing the 해금: The 태평소 soloist: Here is an interesting variation on the traditional 가야금. It has 25 strings instead of 12. The North Korean version has 24 strings. I will get these into the forum too. Soon.

Remember how the boys were being punished last week? Well, they were in trouble because some of them apparently went in to the room where their dog was giving birth! That night, just after dinner, the dog went into labor, and the boys were told not to go in. I thought they were staying out, but I guess the excitement got to them. I happened to have my camera, so I could record a quick movie about the incident. There is actually a lot of footage from that night, some of it is apparently inappropriate, and other things are just downright hilarious. Today, watch one of the real versions, and later, I'll share the sillier ones as well. I didn't subtitle it because the conversation is simple enough that I think you'll be able to... Show more

Here goes one more category to our already-full list of interesting categories in our KoreanClass101 Blog. But I believe this will be a very good opportunity for everyone to enjoy (and understand) pictures of some 'written Korean' found in Korea. As a lot of you might already know, I've been posting these pictures in the KClass forum under the name of "translation practice" - in the hope of giving everybody a chance to take a guess at what they think certain signboards or written announcements mean and check their knowledge of the Korean language, and I'm so thankful to everyone who's been participating. :-) But then I don't really have a proper chance to provide 'answers' or at least ... the way I would express it into English to the... Show more

I'm back with another word that has many faces! :-) Hope you'll enjoy this one as well! 잡다(japda) basically means to "catch" or to "grab", but it can mean a variety of things, and it's a very useful verb, so please give it a look! Thanks for reading, and keep enjoying learning Korean with KoreanClass101 !!

We recently had a discussion about house size with our homestay guest. He indicated that he lives in a 32 평 apartment but his best friend lives in a 100 평 주택 (house). One 평 equals about 3.3 square meters or 35.5 square feet. Therefore, his apartment is about 1,100 square feet and his friends house is 3,550 square feet! He says his friend's house is three stories and that his friends family is rich. I would think that having a house of that size in Korea would qualify as being rich. A 32 평 apartment in Korea is above average in size, even though by American standards it is small. We just moved out of a 1400 sq. ft.  house and it felt very small. Perhaps that is because there were six of us living there (we have four children). While... Show more